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Citation Management Software

Below you'll find some common tools for managing references and helping to make citations

Citation Styles Common in STEM

Below you'll find some of the most commonly used style guides, basic information about each, and some links to help you learn how to master them.

 

IEEE is a format used for several engineering fields, within and beyond electrical. It is formatted to make citations compact by minimizing extraneous words. IEEE utilizes a regulated list of abbreviations for all IEEE journals, conferences, organization acronyms (IEEE Editorial Manual Guide for Authors pp. 57-71), standardized abbreviation conventions for common words (like "international" as "Int." and "science" as "Sci."), and for all months of the year.

For more information on using and understanding the IEEE style guide, check out PurdueOWL's section on IEEE, or the (much more dense) resources provided by IEEE themselves, including the full IEEE Editorial Manual Guide for Authorsthe IEEE Reference Guide, the IEEE Mathematics Guide, or the abbreviated IEEE How to Cite References Guidelines.

Basic Format:

Author's name [#] mid-sentence...
...statement and sentence that cites research [#].
Several citations [#, #, #] in a sentence....

 

Examples:

Scholtz [2] has argued. . . .
...for example, see [7].
Several recent studies [3, 4, 15, 22] have suggested that. . . .

Basic Format:

First Initial. Middle Initial. Author Last Name, “Name of paper,” Abbrev. Title of Periodical, vol. x, no. x, pp. xxx-xxx, Abbrev. Month, year, doi: 10.XXX/XXX.

 

Example (for an article):

D. V. Lindberg and H. K. H. Lee, “Optimization under constraints by applying an asymmetric entropy measure,” J. Comput. Graph. Statist., vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 379–393, Jun. 2015, doi: 10.1080/10618600.2014.901225.

ASCE is a format used for [INPUT]. It is formatted to

For more information on using and understanding the ASCE style guide, check out PurdueOWLs section on ASCE, or the resources provided by ASCE themselves, including [INPUT]

Basic Format:

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Examples:

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Basic Format:

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Example (for an article):

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AMA is a format mostly used in biomedical sciences and thus pertinent bioengineering and biochemical engineering fields at Cooper. It is formatted to make citations [HOLD FOR MORE INFO]

For more information on using and understanding the AMA style guide, check out [HOLD FOR LINKS]

Basic Format:

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Examples:

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Basic Format:

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Example (for an article):

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